"I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes."

"I'm a dreamer. I believe in dreams."

"I'm an ordinary person who has been given extraordinary opportunities."

"A man doesn't know what he has until he loses it. And then he still doesn't know what he has lost."

"Rock 'n' roll? It's the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."